SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2025-1716

picklescan before 0.0.21 does not treat 'pip' as an unsafe global.

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 1.68%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.68%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

picklescan before 0.0.21 does not treat 'pip' as an unsafe global. An attacker could craft a malicious model that uses Pickle to pull in a malicious PyPI package (hosted, for example, on pypi.org or GitHub) via `pip.main()`. Because pip is not a restricted global, the model, when scanned with picklescan, would pass security checks and appear to be safe, when it could instead prove to be problematic.

CVSS 4.0
5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS
1.68% probability · 76th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-184
Affected
mmaitre314/picklescan
Source
103e4ec9-0a87-450b-af77-479448ddef11

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.